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[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0408]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "While betting odds changed like a stock market's nightmare, the champ weighed in at his stall Monday night, scowling defiance to the world. Tuesday morning his crown as egg laying champion of the state will at stake."
Date: September 20, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0870]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is Minnie, not the moocher, nor yet the mermaid, but as smart a baby chimpanzee as you'll see in a month of Sundays."
Date: January 30, 1936
Creator: Hart, Alphia O.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0383]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "You've heard about weather so hot that it would fry an egg. Well, these are the days when the sun is mightier than the incubator. Here you have an egg which had been coasting along at the relatively cool temperature of 99 1/2 degrees, the approximate heat at which incubators uniformly are kept. The photographer selected a couple of hatchery eggs and placed them on the sidewalk in Wednesday's maximum of 102 degrees. First t… more
Date: August 17, 1936
Creator: Allred
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0840]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Only Sporting Thing to do is to let each reader write his own caption to this picture. While it's actually Kokomo Jr., the TV chimp, we're sure you can find a resemblance in his actions to someone you know. Reporters think Kokomo was acting like a city editor; the city editor thought it looked like a disgruntled caller. So have your own fun. Actually, the picture was taken to fit in a strip you'll find on page 15, on how Ko… more
Date: June 18, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0400]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twelve year old Carl Rickey Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Williams of Chandler, inspects the bantam and standard varieties of the silver-laced Wyandotte chickens exhibited by Elmer Miller of Allentown, PA."
Date: December 6, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0401]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's one Easter chicken that pays off every Easter. She's Henny Penny, the Bantam chicken given to Jeffrey Hays, 6, when he was 2 years old- in 1949. Beginning with the very next Easter, she has hatched out Jeffrey's Easter chicken every year. Every spring, 21 days before Easter week, Jeffrey's mother, Mrs. Willard W. Hays, 2612 NW 25, locates a nest full of Bantam eggs for Henny. Tuesday the score on Henny's 12 eggs was… more
Date: March 31, 1953
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0414]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Below Phyllis Lance, Grady county 4-h club member, won the Climax trophy presented by the Shawnee Milling Co. for entering the champion bird in the junior American class. She also won the Southwestern Poultry man trophy for the champion trio of the show."
Date: December 9, 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0849]

Description: Caption: "Musical monkeyshines of this sort go to prove that this chimp is no chump when it comes to aping people. The warbler is none other than Cheta the educated chimpanzee who appears with the Shrine Polack Bros. circus which moves into town Tuesday for a four day stand at the Municipal Auditorium. Cheta, who has been in a number of Tarzan Movies, is the star in a trio of performing chimps."
Date: November 7, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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